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Family Challenges

Jul10

2012

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To begin our Out of the Darkness countdown (more information on our Facebook page) of some of the factors that contribute to sex trafficking, we start with “family challenges” which affect many of the girls and women we serve. As a reminder, all of this information is from an internal study done this year with partners of Eternal Threads.

Family challenges include broken families or families with a dysfunctional background including families with widowed or single mothers or polygamous backgrounds. It also includes families where one or both parents are working away from home in order to provide for their children, and families in which there are too many children for the mother or parents to care for adequately. As you can imagination, whether with good or poor intentions or even neglect, these situations put children at great risk for being trafficked. They need more support and protection.

These family issues are present in numerous countries, but were specifically reported in Nepal, Ghana, Mongolia, and Nigeria. In these countries and every country, Eternal Threads helps by partnering with those who work to stand in the gap of family challenges. By providing jobs and often emotional support for girls and women, we strive to give them the resources they need to be successful in making their own living and taking care of themselves and their families.

Check in tomorrow to see how you can make a specific difference in the issue of Family Challenges.

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Our mission is “weaving hope and justice” to improve the lives of women and children who are at risk from extreme poverty and trafficking. Purchasing their handmade artisan products at fair trade wages provides sustainable livelihood. Hope for the future for rescued girls in Nepal and women in Afghanistan is provided through vocational skills training, literacy and small business classes.